Screen trivia
Name a TV series
“Name a TV series” is one of 35 screen prompts in Icillion. Of its 108 accepted answers, 5 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
Right, but shallow: 5 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Friends
- Game of Thrones
- Breaking Bad
- The Simpsons
- Stranger Things
One step down
These 18 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- The Office
- Seinfeld
- Sherlock
- Doctor Who
- The Big Bang Theory
- How I Met Your Mother
- Squid Game
- The Walking Dead
- Grey's Anatomy
- Money Heist
- The Crown
- The Mandalorian
- Wednesday
- Peaky Blinders
- The Sopranos
- Lost
- Modern Family
- Black Mirror
Answers by level
| Level | Accepted answers | Points |
|---|---|---|
| The Tip | 5 | 10 |
| Below the Surface | 18 | 25 |
| The Deep | 40 | 50 |
| The Abyss | 44 | 85 |
| Below the Iceberg | 1 | 100 |
The Deep holds 40 answers starting with A, B, D, E, F, G, H, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, V and W. The Abyss has 44 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 108 answers in total, 71 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “24”. Longest: “Monty Python's Flying Circus”.
- T, B and S are the most common first letters; together they start 44% of the answers.
- 3 answers can be typed more than one way: “La Casa de Papel” counts as Money Heist.
Getting below the surface
- Start with T: 23 of the answers begin with it.
- Friends, Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- For games, think of the items, mobs and bosses, not only the heroes.
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Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name a TV series”?
- The usual first answers are Friends, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Simpsons and Stranger Things. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a TV series”?
- 108 in all: 5 on The Tip, 18 Below the Surface, 40 in The Deep, 44 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a TV series” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “24” and the longest is “Monty Python's Flying Circus”.
- How hard is “Name a TV series”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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How deep does your knowledge go?
Seven prompts a day, twenty seconds each. Obvious answers float on the tip of the iceberg; rare ones sink all the way to the trench.
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